{"id":56379,"date":"2017-08-12T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56379"},"modified":"2017-08-12T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T15:33:07","slug":"fire-and-fury-a-fair-or-unfair-borrowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56379","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Fury &#8212; a fair or unfair borrowing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; how can anyone accurately judge the rage of another &#8212; and what happens if we simply can&#8217;t, but need to take precautions against it? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump certainly spoke of visiting &#8220;fire and fury&#8221; on the DPNK as quoted by the Economist in its DeafCon page (upper panel):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tablet-DQ-Fire-and-Fury.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tablet-DQ-Fire-and-Fury.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tablet-DQ-Fire-and-Fury-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The question is whether the use of the phrase to headline a piece on the Alt-Right torchlight protest at UVa (lower panel) is appropriate or not?<\/p>\n<li>Does it trivialize the serious matter of potential nuclear war by applying <strong>Trump&#8217;s phrase<\/strong> to a mere few hundred protesters,<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>or does it rightly intuit that the fury and fire of the <strong>Trump-Bannon<\/strong> platform &#8212; as applied to the DPNK nuclear program &#8212; is of the same cloth as the fury and fire of the protesters, and thus entirely applicable and appropriate?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>For the second time today:<\/p>\n<p>Metaphors, analogies, parallelisms, paradoxes &#8212; my stock in trade &#8212; are delicate matters, and should be treated with care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; how can anyone accurately judge the rage of another &#8212; and what happens if we simply can&#8217;t, but need to take precautions against it? ] . President Trump certainly spoke of visiting &#8220;fire and fury&#8221; on the DPNK as quoted by the Economist in its DeafCon page (upper panel): The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,12,1457,526,1314,627,625,139,875,840,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-analogy","category-bannon","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-hipbone-analysis","category-media","category-metaphor","category-paradox","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56379"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56387,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56379\/revisions\/56387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}